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from Warsaw, Missouri, also a photograph of a specimen of 
Teleosaurus Tiedmanni from Wurtemburg. 
The President, Dr. J. S. NewBEerRY exhibited two Speci- 
mens of Echinoderms, and made some remarks calling attention 
to the beauty and complexity of the structure of their skele- 
tons. One wasa Spatangus, from Nassau, the other Clypeaster, 
from Tortugas. 
Pror. O. W. Morris exhibited specimens of Claystones, from 
New England, also a supposed Meteorite, from Tennessee. 
Pror. C. A. Joy said he thought the specimen exhibited 
was not a meteorite, but a mass of Spiegeleisen. 
Pror. A. M. Epwarps said he was of the same opinion. 
Spurious meteorites were by no means uncommon. 
Pror. D. S. Martin exhibited a series of specimens of 
newly-described lower Carboniferous Fossils, discovered by 
Prof. J. J. Stevenson, of West Virginia University, at 
Morgantown, in that state. Prof Stevenson is a most earnest 
and enthusiastic geologist, and his labors had been rewarded 
by the discovery of four new species of shells, and one new 
trilobite, which had been all named and described by Prof. 
F. B. Meek. The trilobite, of which only one or two frag- 
mentary pieces have as yet been obtained, is described as 
Phillipsia Stevensont. The shells are the following, all be- 
longing to the family of Arcadz ;—Nucula (?) anodontoides, 
Macrodon obsoletus, Yoldia carbonaria, and Yoldia Stevensoni ; 
specimens of all of which, were exhibited to the Lyceum. 
They were obtained by Prof. Stevenson in his stratum No. 20, 
Lower Coal Measures, near Morgantown, Monongalia Co., 
West Virginia. The rock of this stratum is a dark-colored, 
fragile shale, quite rich in mollusca, which are mainly iden- 
tical with those of the Chester Group in the Western States. 
Prof. Martin also exhibited a number of very small Sharks’ 
Teeth from the Phosphate beds of Ashley River, near Charleston, 
S.C. The large teeth of Carcharodon and Oxyrhina are 
abundant in these deposits; but these minute ones have 
